Franklin Capistrano was born in 1943 in Monteiro, State of Paraíba. He has been living in Natal, State of Rio Grande do Norte, since the 1950s, where he is a psychiatrist. When he was younger, he worked as an actor in the Teatro Novo Universitário of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, and traveled the interior of the State in plays by Ariano Suassuna e Marcos Tavares. As an actor, he also did plays by Gil Vicente, Fernando Arrabal, Beaumarchais and others. He has directed shows, poetry recitals, and is also a playwriter. He was the president of the Rio Grande do Norte State Federation of Theater. He founded, with other scholars, the newspaper A Margem, and, with co-workers and staff, founded the Nucleus of Culture and Art-Therapy of Natal, State of Rio Grande do Norte. He was part in the creation, in the 1960s, of the Cine-Club Tirol. He has three published books as a poet: "Catagramas" (1986); "Poemas da Flor da Pele" (Poems of the Naked Skin) (1988), and "Poemagens" (1994). As a journalist he has written for daily newspapers in Natal and has a weekly column in the Jornal de Hoje. As a cultural entertainer, he was present in all avant-garde movements in Natal. He has been a city representative in the Municipal Assembly of Natal since 1994, in his third mandate.